SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Sept. 13, 2012—NVIDIA today introduced two new high-performance GPUs, the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650. These new gaming GPUs deliver the exceptional performance and power efficiency of the award-winning NVIDIA® Kepler™ architecture at price points that will allow more gamers to experience the richness of next-generation PC gaming.

The GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 650 GPUs set a new benchmark for high-performance, remarkably-priced gaming when paired with the incredible line-up of top DirectX 11 games, including Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Assassin's Creed III and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria.

The GeForce GTX 660 represents a phenomenal upgrade opportunity for gamers still playing games on last-generation graphics technology. For the millions of gamers still gaming on the GeForce 9800 GT, the 4X performance improvementi delivered by the GTX 660 will be an upgrade temptation not easily resisted. Similarly, the GTX 650 delivers an 8X performance improvement over the 9500 GTii, allowing gamers to step up to the GTX family with a low-cost solution that delivers a significant boost in performance.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and 650 GPUs are available now from the world's leading add-in card suppliers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gainward, Gigabyte, Inno 3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY and Zotac.

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the impact, benefits and availability of the Kepler architecture and GeForce GTX 660 and 650 GPUs; and the effects of the company's patents on modern computing are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended July 29, 2012. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company's website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

i Comparing GTX 660 to the 9800 GT in 3D Mark Vantage Performance Preset with PhysX. Scores are 29174 for the 660 and 6918 for the 9800 GT, representing a 4.2X performance improvement. Comparing GTX 660 to the 9800 GT in 3D Mark Vantage Extreme Preset with PhysX. Scores are 12998.4 for the 660 and 2407 for the 9800 GT, representing a 5.4X performance improvement.ii Comparing GTX 650 to the 9500 GT in 3D Mark Vantage Extreme Preset with PhysX. Scores are 6200 for the 650 and 777 for the 9500 GT, representing a 8.8X performance improvement.